Principles of safeguarding and protaction in health and social care.
1. Know how to recognise signs of abuse
1.1. Define the following types of abuse: physical abuse - an act of another party involving contact intended to cause feelings of physical pain, injury, or other physical suffering or bodily harm. sexual abuse - forcing undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another. When that force is immediate, of short duration, or infrequent, it is called sexual assault. The offender is referred to as a sexual abuser or (often pejoratively) molester. The term also covers any behavior by any adult towards a child to stimulate either the adult or child sexually. When the victim is younger than the age of consent, it is referred to as child sexual abuse. emotional abuse - form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another to behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder.[1][2][3] Such abuse is often associated with situations of power imbalance, such as abusive relationships, bullying, and abuse in the workplace financial abuse - form of mistreatment and fraud in which someone forcibly controls another person's money or other assets institutional abuse - maltreatment of a person (often children or older adults) from a ify system of power This can range from acts similar to home-based child abuse, such as neglect, physical and sexual abuse, and hunger, to the effects of assistance programs working below acceptable service standards, or relying on harsh or unfair ways to modify behavior self-neglect - behavioral condition in which an individual neglects to attend to their basic needs, such as personal hygiene, appropriate clothing, feeding, or tending appropriately to any medical conditions they have. neglect by others - passive form of abuse in which a perpetrator is responsible to provide care for a victim who is